Word: hulbert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elected. Murray Hulbert, Manhattan politician, onetime (1915-19) U. S. Representative, to be Grand Exalted Ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; and Ben A. Ruffin, of Richmond, Va., to be president of Lions International...
History's well-known prerogative of repeating itself is demonstrated in the researches of Mr. A. B. Hulbert, in the Atlantic Monthly. As the title of the article, "The Habit of Going to the Devil", indicates, this is not the first era in which moralists make a good living by denouncing the trend of the times. Mr. Hulbert lists quotations from American periodicals of about a century ago, all bemoaning the younger, generation, the spread of lawlessness, immorality, irreligion--in fact the conventional topics of the modern reformer. Thus from the annals of 1829 one learns the sad state...
...presented to President Coolidge. ¶ A four-inch dagger attached to a chain which may be worn around the neck, a weapon which Finns use to defend themselves against highway robbers, was the gift of Paavo Nurmi, greatest contemporary distance-runner. It was presented to President Coolidge by Murray Hulbert, President of the Amateur Athletic Union...
...Kfrby of Columbia, Murray Hulbert, President of the A. A. U., and J. B. McCabe have been appointed as head officials in the respective capacities of Referee, Chief Inspector, and Chief Marshal...
...Another English revue is upon us. Managers have been gazing enviously at the grossly successful show of Mr. Chariot and laying plans how to borrow shares of his gold and glory. By the Way is a London success of many months and employs two principal British entertainers, Jack Hulbert and Cecily Courtneidge. It is terribly, terribly English, and for the first half very good fun. The second act fails to sustain the brisk supply of sketch and song. There is the usual British reticence in the matter of glowing scenery and costumes encrusted with emeralds. The piece has personality rather...